Emperor Taizong said it was aimed at Turks. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Turks often invaded the south. Emperor Taizong was determined to destroy the Turks. He said this sentence (quoting Laozi), which means: If you want it to perish, you must first make it complacent. Emperor Taizong once sent people to the Turks to send a lot of gold treasures to encourage their pride.
Western countries say, "If God wants to destroy a person, he will drive him crazy first!" " "Crazy pursuit of money, crazy pursuit of power, crazy revenge on everyone he hates, crazy pursuit of things that don't belong to him, let him step by step into the abyss of death.
Oedipus, an ancient Greek tragic writer, famously said, "If God wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy." Others say that "if God wants to die, he must pretend to be crazy and play the fool" comes from Shakespeare's Macbeth.
When God wants a person to suffer, he always gets carried away.
Ancient Greek tragic writers were all influenced by Herodotus and fully explained it.